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In the last four chapters almost no mention was made of the effects of herbivores. However, grazing and browsing by domestic stock and wild herbivores has a controlling influence on a large part of the vegetation of the world’s uncultivated land. Invertebrate herbivores tend to be more specialized feeders than vertebrate herbivores. Though they can have profound effects on the population dynamics of individual species [297, 298], they do not seem able to control the physiognomy and life form of vegetation in the way that many vertebrate herbivores can [109, 110].
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Miles, J. (1979). Changes caused by grazing animals. In: Vegetation Dynamics. Outline Studies in Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5798-5_7
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